The chief educational institution is the University of Ran goon, constituted in 1920 and embracing two colleges. One, Uni versity college, was formerly known as Rangoon college and was affiliated to Calcutta university. The other, Judson college, is run in connection with the American Baptist Mission organiza tion. The university has recently (1928) been moved to magnifi cent new buildings overlooking the Victoria or Great lakes. In 1926-27 there were i,o68 regular students in University college and 315 in Judson college. There are also numerous secondary and high schools in Rangoon.
Rangoon can now boast most of the amenities of a western city, including several excellent hotels, a number of cinemas, the largest of which are used for stage plays by travelling companies, fine shops and a number of clubs notably the Gymkhana, Pegu, Golf and Boat clubs. The European residences are mainly on the outskirts of the city to the north-west in what is still called the cantonments. The military lines have, however, recently been moved, in the main, to new cantonments at Mingalodon, 12 m.
to the north of Rangoon. At Mingalodon is one of the finest 18 hole golf courses in the East. The development of Rangoon is now in the hands of the Rangoon Development Trust which ad ministers the Rangoon Government Estate on behalf of the Government. The Trust develops the land, and then hands over the completed roads, etc., for maintenance by the Rangoon cor poration. A magnificent race course at Kyaikasan was completed in 1926.
The affairs of the port are administered by the Rangoon port commissioners, and Rangoon handles about 85 or 86 per cent of the total trade of the province. Rangoon town is the business centre of Burma, but the rice-milling (at Dalla), ore-refining (at Syriam) and teak working, which form the staple industries, are carried on outside the town proper. The chief exports of Ran goon, with quantities in tons in 1926-27 are rice bran and pollard (196,152), mineral oils (666,426), timber (215, 577), oil cake pulse (55430), lead (51,859), zinc ore wax, candles, cotton, oilseed and tobacco. The leading imports are noted under Burma. The port is visited yearly by about 1,65o vessels (1,45o steamers), with a total gross tonnage of between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 tons.
Most of the labour in the port and the town is immigrant Indian labour; much of the skilled labour, especially in the build ing trades, is supplied by Chinese. The traders and clerical com munities are also mainly Indians. Rangoon is by no means a Burmese city, and out of a population of 341,962 in 1921 there were only 112,000 Burmese, compared with 125,00o Hindus, 62,00o Muslims, 25,000 Christians (mainly Europeans and half castes, officially styled Anglo-Indians) and 12,000 Chinese.
See references under Burma; see also Administration Report of the Commissioners for the Port of Rangoon (annual) , Report of the Ran goon Development Trust (annual) and Report on the Municipal Administration of the City of Rangoon (annual).